NEW YORK, NY (April 22, 2008) – The April 30 deadline to apply for Magnum Photos's fifth annual Inge Morath Prize is fast approaching.
The $5,000 prize is awarded to a woman photographer under the age of 30 to assist in the completion of a long-term documentary project.
Morath, who died in 2002 from cancer at the age of 78, was devoted and enthusiastic about encouraging women photographers, Magnum says, and her colleagues give the award as a tribute to her.
The photographer was born in Graz, Austria, in 1923. She escaped forced labor in Berlin, where she had been sent for refusing to join Hitler Youth, and worked in Berlin and Vienna during World War II as a photo assistant. Later she studied photography in London and joined Magnum.
In 1962 she married playwright Arthur Miller after meeting him in Nevada on location of the film The Misfits, a movie he'd penned for his then-wife, Marilyn Monroe. After he divorced Monroe, Miller married Morath and they had two children.
Complete entry details are online here on the Magnum Photos Web site.
